Gujarat has reported 58 new Covid-19 cases and a death in Valsad on a day when it registered its fourth case of the Omicron variant on Monday. A health official at the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) has confirmed the sample of a 42-year old man, who returned from South Africa earlier this month, returned positive for the variant Monday.
Earlier, Jamnagar had reported the first three cases of the newly discovered variant in the state as a Zimbabwe-based NRI and his wife who were visiting the city and his brother-in-law who received them tested positive.
Alarm bells as Panchkula records a Covid death
More than a month after Panchkula last reported a death due to Covid-19, a 67-year-old man, resident of village Dhamala, who had been suffering from diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and kidney disease, succumbed to the virus on Monday.
This addition to the death tally raises concerns as the Covid-19 cases continue to rise, with positivity percentage crossing 0.1 percent after a gap of several months. The positivity rate on Monday stood at 0.6 percent.
Gujarat has reported 58 new Covid-19 cases and a death in Valsad on a day when it registered its fourth case of the Omicron variant on Monday. A health official at the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) has confirmed the sample of a 42-year old man, who returned from South Africa earlier this month, returned positive for the variant Monday. Earlier, Jamnagar had reported the first three cases of the newly discovered variant in the state as a Zimbabwe-based NRI and his wife who were visiting the city and his brother-in-law who received them tested positive. Alarm bells as Panchkula records a Covid death More than a month after Panchkula last reported a death due to Covid-19, a 67-year-old man, resident of village Dhamala, who had been suffering from diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and kidney disease, succumbed to the virus on Monday. This addition to the death tally raises concerns as the Covid-19 cases continue to rise, with positivity percentage crossing 0.1 percent after a gap of several months. The positivity rate on Monday stood at 0.6 percent.